书名：America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb、1955 / 美国与其他神话：1955年罗伯特·弗兰克和托德·韦伯的摄影
定价：360.0
ISBN：9780300270891
作者：Lisa Volpe
版次：1
出版时间：2023-10

内容提要：

题 目：America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb、1955 / 美国与其他神话：1955年罗伯特·弗兰克和托德·韦伯的摄影

作 者：Lisa Volpe

出 版：Yale University Press，2023

装 帧：精装，184页

尺 寸：25.4*27.9 cm

 

 

罗伯特·弗兰克和托德·韦伯1955年平行进行的美国摄影项目置于二十世纪中叶美国文化的背景下考量

 

1955年，两位摄影师获得约翰·西蒙·古根海姆基金会的资助，踏上横跨美国的旅程。罗伯特·弗兰克（1924-2019）驾车穿越海岸，拍摄了公路、酒吧和人物，这些照片构成了他广受赞誉的出版物《美国人》（1958）的基础。托德·韦伯（1905-2000）则步行穿越美国，寻找“正在消失的美利坚及其替代物”。

 

这两位摄影师在互不知情的情况下，拍摄了惊人相似的公路、游行和昏暗烟雾缭绕的酒吧场景。然而，弗兰克那颗粒感强、略显歪斜的风格揭示了美国生活中的诸多不公，而韦伯则通过精心构图的照片，展现了清晰的细节，并颂扬了美国人和他们所在之地的独特之处。

 

这本具有启示意义的书籍首次出版了韦伯1955年的照片，并首次将这两个平行项目联系起来。书中包含一百多张图片，并配有文字，阐述了弗兰克和韦伯对相似主题和地点的不同视角和拍摄手法；弗兰克标志性作品的广泛认可与韦伯相对鲜为人知的系列作品之间的对比；以及公路旅行在塑造二十世纪中叶美国身份中的重要作用。

 

Robert Frank’s and Todd Webb’s parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture

 

In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert Frank (1924–2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely admired publication The Americans (1958). Todd Webb (1905–2000) walked across the country, searching for “vanishing Americana and what is taking its place.”

 

Unaware of each other’s work, the photographers produced strikingly similar images of the highway, parades, and dim, smoky barrooms. Yet while Frank’s grainy, off-kilter style revealed many inequities of American life, Webb’s carefully composed images embraced clear detail and celebrated the individual oddities of Americans and their locales.

 

This revelatory book is the first to publish Webb’s 1955 photographs and connects these parallel projects for the first time. More than one hundred images accompany text illuminating Frank’s and Webb’s different perspectives and approaches to similar subjects and places; the difference in reception of Frank’s iconic work and Webb’s relatively unknown series; and the place of the road trip in shaping American identity at midcentury.

 

Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Exhibition Schedule:

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

(October 8, 2023–January 7, 2024) 

 

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

(February 10–July 30, 2024) 

 

Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

(February 8–May 4, 2025)